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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hayes just now
Link to tweet
.@RAICESTEXAS SAYS THERE ARE PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING ***FOUR MONTHS*** POST-DEPORTATION FOR THE US TO RETURN THEIR BABY!!!
THEY SKYPE ONCE A WEEK WITH THEIR ****EIGHT MONTH OLD**** WHO HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY KIDNAPPED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
Worth the all caps, Chris.
What do they have in mind for these infants and children?
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Border Patrol told him his child was "somehwere in Texas" and they didn't know where but he had to go without the child.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigrant-families-separated-at-border-struggle-12938759.php
I cried. I begged, he said. No one could tell me anything.
deminks
(11,014 posts)A woman told the reporter - 'these are not my children on this piece of paper'.
malaise
(269,054 posts)There is no other word for this criminal act.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)maybe you can help get it out there
Detention Center Caregivers background checks not being properly processed. Paperwork tracking kids not being properly done.
Texas has an online searchable database showing all the violations in these kiddie prisons.
There are half a dozen centers in just Cameronn County Texas, where Brownsville is located. 1000 employes of these were laid off with no notice last year.
The violations read like a page out of your worst imagination.
Details here and link to seaechable Texas database here.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568
malaise
(269,054 posts)or trafficking of these children.
I am heartbroken.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)They are in indoctrination camps
Delmette2.0
(4,166 posts)efhmc
(14,731 posts)and they will associate that "person" with a very evil time in their lives. That will backfire bigly.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Seems the UN would also weigh in on civil rights abuses.
avebury
(10,952 posts)complaint with the International Criminal Court. Surely some of the countries that they are from could become involved to bring it up to the level of being heard in the ICC.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)This is torture of children. Keeping them inside day after day, taking them from their parents, disappearing them.
avebury
(10,952 posts)to file a Class Action Civil RICO case against ICE, the Trump Administration, and anybody else they can add for the wholesale kidnapping of their children.
no_hypocrisy
(46,129 posts)and whose children are removed until their rights are terminated have more rights than refugees.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)Do we have to replace every Congressman and Senator in Washington to find someone to protect these children??
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)housing them, supply clothes and housing. Find the company and follow it back to someone in the RNC.
erronis
(15,303 posts)Not a far cry from soylent green. Profit off the offal.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)for them, like Halliburton was in the Bush years. Never can tell who out might be, but they are always tied to big shots in congress and the White House.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)See link to learn about how badly these centers are being run
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)I think Juan had good intentions in the beginning but it went south, no pun.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)They too should go to the border and requestasylum
and ask to go to a camp that the Corp owned. Trying to make them think theyd be reunited, and the Corp gets more money.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isnt just an emotionally wrenching policy. Its an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors.
Those contractorsincluding one with a history of scandalshave advertised a flurry of jobs in recent weeks to support the infrastructure surrounding undocumented children whom the Trump administration has taken from their families.
One of them, from Virginia-based MVM Inc., seeks a compliance coordinator to help in San Antonio with the rapid deployment of an Emergency Influx Shelter for unaccompanied children. As billed, the coordinator would ensure the childrens shelter met policies and procedures set by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement. MVM posted the job on its website this week.
MVM appears to believe its business is growing. A job posting on Indeed.com from 20 days ago advertises for youth care workers in anticipation of a contract award.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/defense-contractors-cashing-in-on-immigrant-kids-detention?ref=home
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)needs to step in and call this a humanitarian crisis
My God, if someone took my children...... <<sob>>
If there is a hell, these horrible excuses for humans belong underneath it.
They claim abortion is a crime - but taking a child out of the arms of its mother or father and putting them in a prison is not??? I don't even know what this country has come to but DEMOCRATS IN GOVERNMENT - FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING, ****DO SOMETHING****
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Gestapo tactics. They yanked a Nursing 4 month old
from his Mother.
Now, tents to house the children,in the summer heat.
While Trump spends millions everyday flying Lo over!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)The trauma of being removed from a primary attachment figure has downstream effects on development that can be insurmountable.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)4 moms, two dads by the age of 5
It robs a child of the right to say no.
You spend your life feeling like your looking at life from the outside, looking in. It interrupts love.
I would like to see huge marches of children protesting this heinous policy. these centers have been in operation for years, btw. An uncomfortable truth, fellow dems
read this for an inside look notmbeing reported
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210730568
moondust
(19,993 posts)byronius
(7,395 posts)They must know there is no Hell.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,008 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Will they allow conditions to get worse so more die? When do they start the gas chambers? Will Americans do anything about it?
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Most of these people don't have 2 nickels, and they certainly can't afford lawyers. What if the US is keeping the kids and deporting the parents, or worse. This is completely outrageous and it doesn't fit with an administration that claims (falsely) to have "family values."
I'm not surprised that Chris Hays has taking an emotional view of this, because he and his wife just became new parents about 4 months ago.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)tinrobot
(10,903 posts)Babies need to be consistently nurtured and held... I doubt they have full time staff doing this.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/neglect.aspx
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)And odd that they only showed the boys detention center. How about the girls? Very disturbing. If you ever wondered what you would have done in 1930's Europe, this is the time to do start doing something.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)It breaks my heart to think of a tiny child being separated from its parents.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Monster Criminals.
ICE is the current SS.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Republicans seem to need little provocation to oppress with no forethought and after with no shame!
democrank
(11,096 posts)poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)said they're giving the kids "pills" to calm them from stress. Chris Hayes asked the reporter, "Don't the Feds need permission from the parents in order to give them meds?" Reporter said apparently the gov't has given themselves permission. Oh, great -- now we're sedating them! Fuckin sick.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I want to celebrate the second that Trump dies...I am praying daily for karma/gaia to explode his fucking heart, but it is clear he has none, so major brain embolism will have to do...
tblue37
(65,408 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)They all look alike you know. What are the chances that even if they do decide to send the children back, that the parents will get their own child?
This is criminal.